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Some came to the Town & County Club Wednesday sporting their "indestructible" bracelets of power, while others came with just the fire from within to do for others. They are the Malta House of Care 2015 "Wonder Women" honorees. The seven, former Knox Foundation director Charmaine Craig, activist and advocate Paula DeSilva, advocate for those with disabilities Polly Hincks, St. Francis Women's Heart Program director Dr. Anita Kelsey, Hartford Hospital vice president Yvette Melendez, ECSU president Elsa Nunez and philanthropist and community leader Susan Scherer, were formally introduced at the reception. And they came "armed." "When I learned I...

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